channel off

channel (something) off

1. To remove or redirect something, usually a liquid, through a channel. You move things to higher ground while I try to channel some of this water off.
2. To squander resources, such as money or time. Look, the company won't give us any more money for this initiative if those guys keep channeling it off.
See also: channel, off
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

channel something off

 
1. Lit. to drain off water or some other liquid through a channel. The front yard is flooded, and we will have to channel the water off. Let's channel off the water before it gets too deep.
2. Fig. to drain off or waste energy, money, effort, etc. Unemployment channeled their resources off. The war channeled off most of the resources of the country.
See also: channel, off
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • channel (something) off
  • channel in
  • channeling
  • channel (something) in(to) (something)
  • same
  • stay tuned
  • change the channel
  • not want to know
  • submerge (someone or something) in (something)
  • submerged
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Kremlin queries legality of taking RT channel off air
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A passer-by with a tracking app traced the phone's GPS, which showed it being washed out of reach into the English Channel off Gorey beach in Jersey.
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The latest incursion by Russian aircraft comes after a warship was intercepted by the Royal Navy close to UK waters and two long-range bombers flew down the English Channel off the coast near Bournemouth.
RAF jets intercept Russian bombers off coast of Cornwall; Typhoon jets from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire escorted long-range Russian Bears until they had left the "UK area of interest"
Inspector Andy Walbeoff said: "I understand from the coastguard it was a 13m yacht on a leisure day out in the channel off Lavernock Point.
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The confrontation turned violent last month, with thousands trying to storm Sharif's house in the capital Islamabad and briefly taking the state television channel off the air.
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If Twenty-First Century Fox succeeds in buying Time Warner, it's likely to sell CNN and pay billions of dollars in taxes rather than go through the headaches of spinning the cable news channel off to shareholders of the merged company, according to people familiar with the matter.
Fox seen selling CNN rather than spinning off despite tax bill
TWO divers died yesterday after getting into difficulties during an underwater expedition in the Channel off Eastbourne, East Sussex.
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Moonves has previously said that CBS would consider taking its free broadcast channel off the air and turning it into a cable network if Aereo prevails.
Moonves reiterates: Aereo wins, CBS may end OTA
The ferry was carrying 870 people when it collided with the cargo ship MV Sulpicio Express 7 as they passed a narrow channel off the port of Talisay City.
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Also in January, the government of Spain asked the country's major satellite provider Hispasat to take an Iranian satellite channel off the air in a blatant violation of freedom of speech.
Senior MP Slams West's New Ban on Iranian Satellite Channels
The investigating team of the Philippines' National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) team did not say if the findings could show that the Philippine Coast Guard used excessive force during its encounter with the Taiwanese fishing vessel at the Balinting channel off Batanes in northern Luzon on May 9, attorney Daniel Daganzo, leader of the NBI team, told GMA News, a TV outfit.
40 bullet holes found in vessel
The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency, but not part of the United Kingdom, in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.
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